Seedlings will let you know what’s bothering them. Check out the possible reasons that they don’t look happy. My poor seedlings need sunlight! Last week, we enjoyed temperatures in the 70s and plenty of sunshine. Today, it is snowing. The flats of seedlings have been on the kitchen table for four days and they’re showing ...
Listen | Gardening BasicsThe basics of growing sugar cane for home gardeners—use for harvesting sugar cane juice and also as a wind break or privacy screen. Sugar cane—is it a vegetable? Or since it’s sweet, maybe it’s a fruit? It’s neither—it’s simply a grass. But it’s edible, so that gives me permission to devote one edition of Just ...
Listen | Edible GardeningGround cherries or husk cherries are bushy and spreading plants producing fruits that taste like a combination of a tomato and a strawberry! Ground cherries will be the “new to me” crop in this year’s garden. I like to plant one item I’ve never grown before, and especially one that I haven’t had much experience ...
ListenKohlrabi is one of those vegetables I grew because I never grew it before. Every year I try to challenge myself to grow some new-to-my-garden crop. About 15 years ago that crop was a no-name variety of kohlrabi. I met with some success, but not enough to put it in my rotation. In fact, I ...
Listen | Edible GardeningVoles, moles, and pocket gophers are underground tunnel makers that make a mess of your yard or garden if you don't catch them. While walking the other day, I noticed the outline of an extensive tunnel network burrowing below the grass and the very top layer of soil. It looks like the voles were busy ...
Listen | Gardening BasicsSome berry producing shrubs and vines might look good, but you do not want them in your yard or garden. Learn how to avoid the bad berries. Growing berries in the garden is a deliciously fruitful endeavor as long as you’re raising the right ones. Several plants produce berries we don’t want in the garden ...
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